Submitting your AI governance project
Submitting your AI governance project
If you're participating in the April 2024 Governance course, you'll have your final facilitated session this week. After this, you will:
Submit your project here by 22 July. Put the final touches on your project, and submit it to us for judging! We recommend you spend most of your efforts after session 12 on creating the final deliverable and communicating what you've done. You should produce some deliverables as a result of your project, such as:
- A paper
- A public blog post (e.g. on Ghost or Substack)
- A video (e.g. on YouTube)
- A website
- Some combination of the above
- Something else entirely
You can submit your project by using this form. You’ll also receive an email with the project submission link sometime this week.
(Optional) Prepare a 3-5 minute presentation of your work. You don’t need a slide deck, but you should be able to explain your project to other learners.
Attend the project closing event on 31 July. You’ll present your work to small breakouts with other learners. We’ll also announce the winners of the project competition, award prizes, and close out the course.
Tips on creating an excellent final deliverable
Explain what you managed to achieve. A common mistake is to write about the work you did, rather than what you achieved. Remember that negative results (i.e. when you discovered something didn’t work) are also good to publish!
Target a broad audience. Your product should be easy to understand by others - aim for a smart college student with some policy background. This doesn’t mean you need to dumb down your project - but it does mean you should:
- use accessible language
- define key terms, or link to good definitions of them
- structure writing with headers, topic sentences, and lists
Ask for feedback. Consider reaching out to connections you made in your learning and project cohorts, or from course networking events. A great tactic is to ask them to explain what they think your project is after reading - this often highlights where your deliverable isn't as clear as you thought it might be.
Prizes
We’ll award* prizes to the best projects in the following categories:
Best policy governance project: £200
Runner-up prize: £50
This prize recognizes unique policy ideas. The winning project will present a novel policy that hasn’t been described before. The problem the policy is trying to solve will be well-explained, and the solution presented will effectively address the stated problem.
Best technical governance project: £200
Runner-up prize: £50
This prize recognizes the contributions of the technical experts looking to upskill in governance on the course. The most detailed governance policies are often those that understand the technology they’re working with. The winning project will seamlessly address core technical challenges in AI governance.
Best governance explainer: £200
Runner-up prize: £50
This prize recognizes projects that take complicated or inaccessible topics and explain them excellently. The winning project will explain an existing topic area in a way that anyone can understand with minimal context or prior knowledge.
Best interactive deliverable: £200
Runner-up prize: £50
This prize recognizes the importance of communicating your work by creating an engaging and interactive deliverable, such as a visualization, game, simulation, website, or other tool that allows users to explore your project results. The winning project will effectively communicate an important idea from your project in an interesting and accessible manner.
Outstanding governance project awards: three winners, £200 each.
Excellence often doesn’t fit into nice boxes. This prize recognizes outstanding projects that don’t fit into the other prize categories we’ve defined. The winning projects will be extremely high-quality, unique contributions to their respective fields.
*Note that BlueDot Impact does not endorse policy ideas. Winning an award is not an endorsement of your idea. Rather, it is a reflection of the academic quality of your work.